bookvert

This is a .cbz batch conversion tool which scans directories for image files, groups them by their directory and creates books out of them.

The idea is that you have a group of semi-structured directories containing lexically sorted image files and you run bookvert against it.

• That time I sorted books/That time I sorted books - Chapter 1
• That time I sorted books/That time I sorted books - Chapter 1 - Fix
• That time I sorted books/That time I sorted books - Chapter 2

This book then groups all the books by catalogues. A catalogue is determine by some numerical component in the name of the book. If multiple books share the same number, they are part of the same catalogue.

So if you run bookvert against the Manga directory above there will be two catalogues, and the first catalogue will be ambiguous since it has two choices.

If this happens, bookvert presents you with an interactive view you can use to select the book.

Once you are done, if you set the name to That time I sorted books and you select which directory to use for Chapter 1, bookvert will create That time I sorted books1.cbz and That time I sorted books2.cbz in the specified output directory.

Policies

If you don't like the interactive mode, you can set a pick policy using the --pick argument. This lets you specify how a book should be picked depending on which catalogue it is part of.

See --help for more information.